The factor in regards to the Apple Watch is that you simply principally must personal an iPhone as a way to use it. This is versus Wear OS units or different platforms during which you would pair it with an iPhone. However, that appears to be altering with Samsung’s newly-announced Galaxy Watch 4 collection.

For those that missed the announcement, these are the most recent smartwatches from Samsung which may even be working the brand new Wear OS platform that they collaborated with Google on. What’s fascinating is that presumably on account of this collaboration, the brand new Galaxy Watch 4 watches is not going to assist iOS.

This signifies that in the event you personal an iPhone and have been utilizing it along with Samsung’s older Galaxy Watch collection, the most recent mannequin will now not play good with Apple’s cell platform. However, Samsung did verify to ArsTechnica that so far as older Galaxy Watch units are involved, they’ll stay suitable with iOS and that they’ll proceed to assist it for now.

We’re certain that there are going to be some iPhone customers who might be upset by this, however to be truthful there are nonetheless loads of non-Apple Watch options on the market, so hopefully these customers will be capable of discover one thing else.

Filed in Apple >Cellphones >Gadgets. Read extra about iOS, iPhone, Samsung, Smartwatch, put on OS and Wearable Tech. Source: arstechnica